Psalms 107:26

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths: Their soul melteth away because of trouble.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יַעֲל֣וּ שָׁ֭מַיִם יֵרְד֣וּ תְהוֹמ֑וֹת נַ֝פְשָׁ֗ם בְּרָעָ֥ה תִתְמוֹגָֽג

Transliteration

yaʿălû šāmayim yērᵊdû tᵊhômôt napšām in-rāʿâ titmôgāg

Grammar Details

*yaʿălû*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they go up
*šāmayim*: noun, masculine dual - heavens/sky
*yērᵊdû*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they go down
*tᵊhômôt*: noun, feminine plural - depths/abysses
*napšām*: noun, feminine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their soul
*rāʿâ*: noun/adjective, feminine singular with prefixed preposition bet - in trouble/evil/distress
*titmôgāg*: hithpoel imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - it melts/dissolves

Word Meanings

*yaʿălû*: they go up/ascend/rise
*šāmayim*: heavens/sky
*yērᵊdû*: they go down/descend/sink
*tᵊhômôt*: depths/abysses/deep waters
*napšām*: their soul/life/courage/vitality
*rāʿâ*: trouble/evil/distress/calamity
*titmôgāg*: it melts/dissolves/wastes away

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Ps 22:14 : 14 I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
Ps 119:28 : 28 My soul melteth for heaviness: Strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
Isa 13:7 : 7 Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:
Nah 2:10 : 10 She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.
2 Sam 17:10 : 10 And even he that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they that are with him are valiant men.

Similar Verses (AI)

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27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits' end.
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23They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters;
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11Because they rebelled against the words of God, And contemned the counsel of the Most High:
12Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; They fell down, and there was none to help.
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7At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away
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5Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.
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Ps 107:39
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Jonah 2:5
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Acts 27:41
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